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We suggest a compelling alternative — the done list. Instead of itemizing things that haven’t happened yet and living in the wishful subjunctive, flip your focus to the immediacy of the present and the concreteness of the past. Is it more useful to know how much you had planned on running or how far you actually ran?

The simple power of the done list in encouraging productivity is that it relies on the fact that, as Leo Babauta says of living without goals, “you simply do.”